On Thursday (10th September), Huawei announced Harmony OS 2.0 its home-grown operating system. It is already on devices like wearables, cars, and smart TVs. Now they are likely wanted to introduce it to smartphones from next year as it is the main plan.
We’re already aware of its issues with the U.S. It is not allowed to sell its components or any services in the U.S and it cannot use Google services. Due to some allegations of a cybersecurity threat. Huwaei survived in the market at 2nd position after Samsung without the help of Google Services, this is how big it is. Even though Google and Huawei want to work together but the government is not allowing it, Huwaei must have an alternative. There, it introduced HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) and as well as its homegrown operating system Harmony OS.
As you can see its roadmap for OpenHarmony, introduced the initial support for the devices with 128KB to 128MB RAM. Huawei stated that Harmony OS will be debut in smartphones from early next year. The beta Harmony OS 2.0 SDK will be available for developers in December 2020. We can see the complete Harmony OS by October 2021, they said.
In HDC (Huawei Developer Conference) 2020, they teased some Harmony OS cross-device features link adaptive interface and security. And its power to deliver the fastest read/write performance. As Harmony OS is open-source, developers will have a better alternative after android. Let’s see how Harmony OS will bring a better competitor into the market.
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